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«¬¬¬¬| |: | |: | |¬¬¬¬« [Contrast of Mark Sway, Client]
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----\___|: |\__ |\__ |---- [Dirk Pitt, Dragon and Beowulf]
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Grade Level: [ ]Grade School Type of Work: [x]Essay/Report/Term
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[x]High School [ ]Informational
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[ ]College [ ]Notes
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[ ]Misc
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>Chop Here>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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A woman her late thirties bellowed "My Baby! My Baby!", as her baby
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carriage rolled towards the bottom of the great hill. Off in a distance, a
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man of around early thirties heard these desperate calls for help. The man
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dashed out from his house and immediately followed pursuit of the blue baby
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carriage. Within one minutes, he safely reclaimed the carriage and the
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baby girl was safely returned to her mother without harm. This is an
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example of how the young man is showing traits of heroism, the traits being
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courage, intelligence, and strength. He was courageous to help return to
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the young woman the baby carriage, intelligent to act quickly and actually
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catch up to it, and his strength is shown by his ability to outrun a racing
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carriage down a deep hill. Different books use different characters to
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display heroism within their characters. Mark Sway of The Client is a
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story of a young boy's heroic battle against the Mafia and the FBI. The
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story of Dirk Pitt of Dragon is a story of how a older man of the nineteen-
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hundredths can overcome evil. Beowulf of the story Beowulf is an example
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of how even hundreds of years ago, heroes used the same traits as today.
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Heroes of every culture of all ages share courage, intelligence and
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strength.
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Courage is a prominent feature of all heroes. Within these three
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books, each character, Mark Sway, Dirk Pitt and Beowulf, display signs of
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Courage. Mark Sway was a courageous boy at his age of 9 years old. Mark
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would never quit from continuing with an idea of his if it was for good:
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"`We can't let them take the body, Reggie. Think about it. If they get
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away with it, it'll never be found.'"1 What this phrase points out, is
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that Mark did not want to leave the Mafia men to retrieve the body of the
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Senator Boyette, for if they got the body, his efforts to keep quiet about
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the whole situation would seem fruitless. Dirk Pitt used courage in order
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that he can continue perusing the enemies. Dirk never gives up exposing a
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plot of death and trickery of another person. Beowulf displays courage by
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fighting off the Troll, the Troll's mother, and the Dragon. Beowulf would
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not forfeit a fight with one of those people despite their gruesome
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reputations. Beowulf made a journey to the bottom of a pool to defeat the
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mother, showing his ambition and his courage to enter upon her domain and
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defeat her. Mark Sway, Dirk Pitt, and Beowulf each possess the quality of
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Courage amongst them.
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Intelligence is a third trait which the 3 characters share together.
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Mark Sway had immense intelligence which he showed many times within the
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book The Client. An example of this was when he broke out of jail faking a
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collapse. He showed intelligence also when he scared the men working for
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the Mafia away from the buried corpse in the garage. Dirk Pitt displayed
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intelligence against his enemies, also. Dirk Pitt was very experienced in
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using all the objects he was given to work with during a certain situation.
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"He rapidly twisted off the connectors to a pair of six-volt dry cell
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rechargeable batteries... It wasn't what Jordan and Kern would call an
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earth-shattering plan, but it was all he had."2 This passage shows while
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he was locked in a room in Japan, his mind continued to work to find itself
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a way in which to get out. His plan he made worked and by the end of the
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story was freed from the clutches of evil. Beowulf showed signs of
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intelligence during his battle with the Troll. He slept in the main hall
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where the Troll killed the people, leaving one eye open to watch out for
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the devilish creature. His intelligence in setting the stage for him to
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overpower the Troll, helped to decide if he was to win, or to lose. Mark
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Sway, Dirk Pitt and Beowulf all show signs of Intelligence throughout their
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books.
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Strength is another apparent trait of a hero present in all three
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books. Mark Sway used his emotional strength to continue on in the face of
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danger. Even when Mark Sway was confronted and scared by the Mafia men
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within the hospital, he continued to use his strength and push on to find
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the actual body, and keep the FBI from knowing where the body was to be
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found. Dirk Pitt used strength throughout his book in many ways. One
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prominent way, was when he was attacking Kumi near the end in a great sword
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battle which cost Kumi's head. Beowulf displayed signs of strength
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throughout his book in many ways, also.
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"Reaching out with his open hand, the fiend was about to
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take hold of the hero on his bed. But Beowulf at once saw
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the hostile move and propped himself up on his elbow.
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The archbeast soon realized that nowhere in the world had
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he ever met a man with such might in the grip of his hand." 3
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The above passage shows how his strength was more powerful than that of a
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creature of the underworld. Beowulf was the strongest whom the treacherous
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creature has ever been put forth against. When Beowulf is fighting the
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Troll's mother within her murky pond, he shows more signs of strength.
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"During the struggle he saw a sword which had won fame
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in battle. It was a prize weapon, an ancient blade forged
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by the giants. But for the fact that it was too large for an
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ordinary man to use in combat, it was a choice weapon. ...
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He swung its whorled blade and furiously struck, so that the
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sword caught her on the neck and clashed clean through her
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backbone into her doomed body." 4
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This passage shows how he was able to carry and use successfully a sword
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created for the giants and which "too large for an ordinary man" to use.
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Mark Sway, Dirk Pitt, and Beowulf all displayed different signs of strength
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throughout each of their books.
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The man that saved the baby from imminent death in the first paragraph,
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clearly possessed the same traits that heroes of every time and culture
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have possessed from years passed. Even in today's society, we have heroes
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who go out of their way to help another whom possess courage, intelligence,
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and strength. Mother Theresa uses her courage, intelligence and strength
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to help the sick and children who are not as fortunate as you and I. After
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working on this essay I realized that these traits are constant throughout
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history to the present as Beowulf is a sharp contrast to the books of
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today. All heroes share at least three things in common, courage,
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intelligence and strength.
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Footnotes
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1. The Client by John Grisham. Page 516
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2. Dragon by Clive Cussler. Page 372
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3. Beowulf translated by David Wright. Page 44
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4. Beowulf translated by David Wright. Page 64
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